Ideating Hwang’s kayagum and Bilson’s fortrepiano: a contrastive description of Korean and English discourses about music and the impacts of divergence on second language translation.

Description of Thesis Research

Kathleen’s research is concerned with contrastive language description of Korean and English languages, using discourses about music. Different registers are being analysed for ideational meaning at the levels of lexicogrammar and logico-semantic relations. She hopes to engage translators in the process, to define larger paradigms of linguistic resources in both languages; as well as to examine the impact of language divergence on second language use in the task of translation.

Her Master’s supervisor was Dr Mira Kim; and her PhD supervisor is Professor Christian Matthiessen.

Involvement in Research Groups, Networks and Projects

Member of the Sysfunc listserver since 2009;

Contributing member of the Sydney typology group, convened by Professor Jim Martin and Dr Mira Kim at the University of Sydney, from 2009 until 2010;

Macquarie University (2012):Lecturing and tutoring in the T&I Masters programmes, for the courses: Text Analysis for Translation; and Korean to English Translation.

Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE (2009 – 2013):Teaching and delivering the Adult English Migrant Programme (AMEP); Settlement courses; coordination and negotiation of guest speakers from multicultural services; teacher of ESOL and English for Further Studies (EFS) courses. Assistant for Korean Provincial Government exchange programmes, including translation and interpreting.

The University of Sydney (2008 – 2009):Tutoring coursework students in the joint online learning project with the City University, Hong Kong; online Blackboard interface management; language resource collation; quality control; and editing submissions for publication.

Service

Community translation and interpreting for sporting organisations (Han Rim Won and Sung Moon Kwan kumdo clubs);